Hi, comments below
On 2010-05-21, at 06:07, Song Haibin wrote: >> On 5/20/10 5:48 PM, "Song Haibin" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> For tracker based p2p applications, some guys proposed to embed the >> ALTO >>> client within the tracker, so that the p2p clients do not have to be >>> changed. But one additional thought comes into mind, peers usually >> exchange >>> peer list among themselves, does a peer also have to implement ALTO >> client >>> to select peers from these candidates got from other peers? >> >> I would say no. ALTO was optional from the beginning since the idea is > that >> clients can always fall back to original behavior in case of disruption. >> >> Interesting question what would happen if you control the tracker (as in >> your example) but peers can exchange info that ultimately is based on the >> original selection done at the tracker. You will loose some localization > but >> without DHT there is no other place to get peers from, therefore inter-AS >> traffic might still be curbed. >> > > A peer can get peers in the same swarm from the connected neighbors in the > existing p2p applications, even without DHT. I don't know how much > difference there will be if the peer also implements the ALTO client. > One thing I would expect in this scenario is, that each client gets peers from the tracker which in this case are selected by the ALTO client within the tracker. This means most of the clients will know mostly good peers in the sense of ALTO. The direct peer exchange will then also provide the better peers to other clients. But this argument might only be valid if all trackers use ALTO. best regards Dirk -- Dipl.-Ing. Dirk Haage | Informatics VIII: +49 89 289 18019 | Network Architectures & Services [email protected] |Technical University of Munich MI 03.05.057, Bolzmannstr. 3, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany _______________________________________________ alto mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto
